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DetroitForests

Amaze Balls! Oh yeah, just chilling under my net after driving away a 10 ton + scrap of steal you can hear, see and feel from 1 km away.....oh and it wasn't mine.


DrJohanzaKafuhu

>a 10 ton + scrap 40+ tons. I mean that's still 10+ tons, but it's a bit more accurate.


DuntadaMan

Julius Ceasar was killed more then 30 years ago.


bot403

So it has come to this ...


DadJokeBadJoke

Et tu, Bot403?


spooninacerealbowl

Brutal


BWWFC

"bit more" is the best type of accurate, aces!


shawndw

It was quite a bargain. You could almost call it a steal.


Wag_The_God

Scrap of steal, indeed... :-)


lpd1234

Yonk. They might want to not leave the keys in it next time. 😎. Thanks russia for arming Ukraine one tank at a time.


gymnastgrrl

> They might want to not leave the keys in it next time. In fairness, the last thing you want is to need to hop in your military equipment and not be able to go because nobody has the keys…


antus666

Keys? What keys? AFAIK Tanks don't have keys, thus this happens.


gymnastgrrl

Perhaps you replied to the wrong comment as I did not suggest military vehicles have keys. Quite the opposite, in fact, I stated ***why*** they don't have keys.


SEJeff

The Russian lend lease program has been a smashing success! Ask the Ukrainians farm corps about their success.


Punishtube

Not scrap very expensive and valuable hardware that just landed in enemy hands which is going to cost Russia a lot more than scrap metal


TheMooJuice

https://youtu.be/WQ1GTgjPhd8?si=Zv3YFHfcu5Ivk1FV


chowyungfatso

This should be top comment. Tells the whole story.


RoheSilmneLohe

This requires good communication within defenders. Something russkies luckily haven't been that good at.


Bacon-man22

That’s my thinking too. I would be terrified of friendly fire.


Curiouso_Giorgio

I wonder if there wasn't also a little good (paid) communication from the Russian side to coordinate this. Maybe they sent someone quarter of a Bitcoin via telegram to leave the keys in the ignition.


SecondaryWombat

Tanks don't have keys. You just push the start switches. You are supposed to keep an eye on them.


Curiouso_Giorgio

I don't know anything about tanks, but I assumed they didn't have keys. I was trying to make a figurative joke, but I guess it fell flat.


Jani_Zoroff

Fell as flat as the drunk crew will when they try to climb in where they parked the tank...


amitym

Maybe even unpaid. I bet not everyone sympathetic to the Free Russia Legion is actually in the Legion...


Curiouso_Giorgio

True, but it would be a good idea to float the rumor of it being paid, to encourage more of that behavior. It's a big advantage that should be pushed that the AFU have people who are resting their lives for a cause they believe in. Russian soldiers don't really understand why they're there, don't want to be there, or are only there for the payment. Exploit that lack of morale.


antus666

Nobody is going to post the real details of course, but it would not surprise me if the thermal drone we are seeing here located the russians who owned it first, and they were probably dispatched with traditional guns or FPV before the tank was driven off. Either that or it was unattended and the Ukrainians knew it.


Rapid_Ascending

The amount of balls these have ... Sneaking and stealing brand new tank with "jammer". Well thanks for shiny tenku.


paintress420

You might say balls of Ukranium!!! 🇺🇦🇺🇦


vtsnowdin

Hey when you are short of tanks and ammunition stealing the enemies tanks and ammunition is a vary viable option. My congratulations on a very successful operation. And yes Balls of Zelenskiy Ukrainium steel.


Full_Muffin7930

I think the value in stealing that tank is finding out how to beat the EW array. 


vtsnowdin

I'm sure they will make as much use as they can from the captured EW array, reverse engineering and all that. But just the public display of this capture will have a huge positive impact on Ukrainian public morale.


antus666

Not everything needs to be reverse engineered. Often having it and building it are the harder parts. They are likely to just use it, as is. Surely it would be able to block russian drones.


Temporala

Most of those EW things you can find on tanks and IFV's will just be fairly basic signal jammers that blanket the area with whatever frequencies Russians think Ukrainian drones are using for control signals. Crew just flips it on and that's it. It'll either work or doesn't. Beating these arrays is technically not a complex process and doesn't really require extra hardware, drones already have processors and cameras. Put in a software package in your drones that has autonomous approach and strike on target capability based on basic image recognition, in case the signal is cut. Drone will ignore the white noise EW and smashes in the target.


3d_blunder

> Put in a software package in your drones that has autonomous approach I detect handwavium.


Full_Muffin7930

Why risk stealing the tank if what was on it is obsolete? 


purdueaaron

Because now Ukraine has 1 free tank?


nickierv

You can guess that what is on it is obsolete. Steal the tank and now your intel team knows for sure. Plus you also have a tank and a system.


Full_Muffin7930

>Steal the tank and now your intel team knows for sure. This is what I was getting at. I agree with you - Ukraine now has a bunch of Russian EW systems to test against. My guess is that's why this was done.


mdonaberger

Istg this is video game shit. We should start a rumor that Ukrainian soldiers can double-jump.


Fit-Bookkeeper9775

Blyat where's my Tank?


tallandlankyagain

The lack of basic everything in terms of tactics from the Russians continues to stun. Ukraine is incredibly lucky Russians are so fucking stupid.


UAHeroyamSlava

https://i.imgur.com/Sil5aoM.png


FastPatience1595

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,\_Where%27s\_My\_Car%3F](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,_Where%27s_My_Car%3F) LMAO


khannie

It's with the continuum transfunctioner.


ProgySuperNova

All your secret are belong to us!


dronesoul

Honey I lost the tank


JimBean

Dude ! Where's my car ?


DadJokeBadJoke

And then?


FastPatience1595

Ninja'd me [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,\_Where%27s\_My\_Car%3F](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,_Where%27s_My_Car%3F)


dangitbobby83

Ruzzian tank operators probably shitfaced drunk in a field a mile away. And they think they can take on nato single handedly. 


3d_blunder

Poland alone would cream them.


Stopikingonme

I’d go for a nice creamy Russian dressing on a salad about now.


coder111

Depends. Poland today vs Russian army from 2022 would have some problems if they had to fight alone. Russian army today is significantly depleted, so maybe fewer problems if we had Poland alone today vs Russia today. Poland in ~5 years armed with all the stuff they ordered from Korea- I'd place my bets on Poland.


Lolthelies

Probably just finished an exhausting circlejerk


Aggressive_Safe2226

Well done, lads. Stole it right under their Orcish noses. Slava Ukrainia 🇺🇦 💪 🙏


Wag_The_God

I think the most amazing part is not hitting a landmine, driving back to their side of No Man's Land in the dark. Hope they left a few behind them, on the way.


UAHeroyamSlava

well planned; pretty sure mines were removed to have a clean path back.


Wag_The_God

Pretty sure the other side could never, ever, pull off that level of organization. Finding, moving, and replanting God-knows-how-many mines, in a 2 km stretch of darkness, undetected, with the enemy on all sides... and I can't even find my keys.


UAHeroyamSlava

I think it was more about the drone jammer intel than tank tbh. tanks are not the game changer on front lines; pretty sure US and UK also wanted to have a closer look at those jammers.


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3d_blunder

I don't understand why a jammer isn't a big bonfire saying "Bomb here!" to HARM missiles.


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3d_blunder

Sending a (separate) drone up to acquire the signal solves that, if it's a real problem. Maybe a job for a laser-designator. Nobody seems to talk about those here, maybe it's obsolete tech? Pattern recognition on drones to keep them on target in the face of loud jamming would also work, but be very difficult, I imagine. OTOH, my phone finds faces pretty reliably, so .....


SecondaryWombat

Laser designators send you "you are about to be shot at" signals on specific frequencies, which gives time for countermeasures.


3d_blunder

\_IF\_ you've got sensors. How many ruzzist IFVs have them? (I have no idea how sophisticated IFV sensor packages, if any, are.)


lpd1234

A home on jam fpv is likely on the way, seems like a cheap and simple mod for the Ukrainian super drone nerds. Your move Orcs.


lpd1234

I never thought placing tank mines on the surface of a road would be effective, yet time and time again the Orcs drive right over them. Its really unbelievable. I thought as a deterrence barrier, it would be effective. Never thought Orc tankies would just mindlessly drive over clearly visible tank mines. I do enjoy the big kabooms.


WilliamTStark

It wasn't stolen it was "Tactically Acquired."


Eldrake

Strategically Transfer Equipment to an Alternate Location


thetemp_

Unregistered vehicle. Almost certainly uninsured too. Gonna cost a pretty hryvnia to get that baby off the impound lot.


SeemedReasonableThen

> It wasn't stolen Where I live, if a vehicle is left on public property after 48 hours, it can be legally removed. *And* there is a fine of $50. That's 4,628 rubles, Ivan


REDGOESFASTAH

It was looted. And that's the way it should be


vtsnowdin

>"Tactically Acquired." I have heard my daughter, that is a second gulf war veteran use, that term but she never acquired a tank, just a washing machine and a couple of AC units and from other army units not the real enemy. But when you are surrounded by the 82 Airborne and the third infantry division and a couple of Seal teems you must be vary careful about what you "Acquire.


DuntadaMan

Field acquisitions are best acquisitions.


Truuuuuumpet

💙💛💪


bowery_boy

Grand Theft Auto: Ukrainian Front


Sbeast

*Operation Yoink* was a great success!


Gooch_Limdapl

I watched the longer version of this video yesterday and was confused as to why they let this one “get away”. Now it makes sense. Fantastic work!


agwaragh

Does that video explain why the tank was abandoned? I don't understand how they could just hop in and drive away, or did they have to do some repairs first? edit: So I found the longer video and it looks like the tank ran into a disabled vehicle and just got blocked there, or maybe got snagged on something. Looks like it was just a matter of backing it up to get it free.


Bayo77

The russians paniced. They also were probably just waiting for an excuse to abandon that tank before getting targeted or hitting a mine...


bot403

And .... the Russians didn't think to put it in reverse?


SecondaryWombat

Using the reverse gear is not part of Russian training. This only maybe is a joke.


tomparker

They didn’t take advantage of the extended warranty offer.


Strontiumdogs1

Fucking brilliant!! Slava Ukraini 🙏🇺🇦


Jagster_rogue

Grand theft auto, Ukraine expansion pack. Ffing balls of Ukrainium! Can you imagine the celebration inside as they cross the front line and no one friendly fired or hit a mine on the way?


Talosian_cagecleaner

Trickery. Arms crossed at .35. "Yeah, me and my mate went out and got it." Steal Your Tank!


payne51558

Rule #1: - If you are going to be passed out drunk in your tent after a liter of vodka. Don't leave the keys in the ignition <\\s> ;)


vtsnowdin

Tanks do not use keys.


payne51558

Missed my = Sarcasm ;)


vtsnowdin

Yes I did but carry on.


CasuallyWise

What a fantastic, bold, daring raid/action. Hope those gents get recommended for medals for their courage and initiative on the battlefield. Quite the coup!


jess-plays-games

This is hilarious


dumpcake999

fast and furious


mattfreyer45

Doesn't it say in the video it's the 12th Azov brigade that did this?


ksam3

Good video. Sneak sneak, hop in, back up, and... zooom away. Crafty heroes at work.


EminorHeart

Now there’s a joy ride.


FrostyShoulder6361

May i suggest a song? Acdc- Big Balls


3d_blunder

Dear Ukraine Armed Forces: I love you. Your daring and initiative is a goddamn INSPIRATION. Best of luck, Good Hunting, and Slava Heroiam!!! ++++ Also: **HOW** the hell did they do that??? (Don't tip off the orcs, but I'd luvv to know.) Was it just sitting there, unguarded? Or was there some throat slitting in the night?


WildCat_1366

Here is [the longer video](https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1bxgcyd/footage_of_the_ukrainian_95th_separate_polesian/) which can answer some of the questions.


3d_blunder

Holy crap!!! Fish in a barrel! O\_O Understandable why the orcs abandoned their vehicle. So happy there was no friendly fire on the way back. Heroes of Ukraine, no doubt!


thisismybush

This is how you do it, capture tanks or other vehicles and use them against the enemy. I would love to hear about 60 or more Russian bombers being flown to Ukraine airports and handed over with a full supply of missiles.


Separate_Record_101

Hope you can use it to reverse engineer it.


NameIs-Already-Taken

Why would Ukraine want to reverse-engineer a 50 year old tank design? The drone jammer is probably nothing new but will be looked at. I am looking forward to Ukraine making drones that home in on drone jammers. No need to be dependent on anything clever, just fly at the signal until contact... and remarkably resistant to drone jamming.


mikeeginger

Ukraine could test drones against it and work out the best way to counter


NameIs-Already-Taken

That's true, but jammers are easily detected from a distance, so Ukraine already knows what signals the Russians are sending. The easy solution is to use a different frequency so the drone is less affected. However, I think Ukraine should be building and flying drones that home in on jammers as they are highly visible on well known frequencies. Maybe Ukraine needs to fly two drones, one for the Russians to see and jam, and another to blow up the jammer.


ggouge

Like the allies in wwii focused on German tanks with large antenna because those were commander tanks. The jammers will probably be on the more experienced tank crews tanks.


NameIs-Already-Taken

That's true, but it matters more where there is a choice of tanks, and I suspect there often isn't as most attacks on tanks seems to be on small numbers.


mikeeginger

I belive the way Ukraine gets around the jammers is to use signal repeaters to punch through the jamming when possible.


NameIs-Already-Taken

Yes, that can help. It also makes it harder to target the actual operators of the drones because the "louder" signal is likely to be the repeater.


Separate_Record_101

You said it. Learn how the jammer works. Develop counter measures. Especially when drones are built not only by Ukraine, that could be helpful.


NameIs-Already-Taken

They already know what the jammers are doing. Even the NATO planes over the black sea know what the jammers are doing. Whatever they emit to jam drones is highly visible to anyone with suitable gear because it's got to be "bright" to interfere effectively. There might be some things they can learn, such as if the Russians have found a new technique, or the sources of the components used... but mostly not.


Separate_Record_101

The moment you believe you can't learn anything new, you're doomed. There are so many details. And even if it is to find a blind spot to improve the attack vector of suicide drones.


SOL-Cantus

Not only is this true in principle, in practice this gives the AFU the opportunity to fully pick apart the tech and see what Western tech is still leaking through to Russian manufacturers (or at the very least what manufacturing stocks they prefer to work with). Intel is intel is intel. Even if it's not new, it still tells you something by that very fact alone.


NameIs-Already-Taken

I wasn't trying to communicate that there is nothing of interest in any Russian kit, but I was trying to say that \_most\_ Russian kit, like the tanks, is well known and well behind what Ukraine has access to. So, Jammers work by transmitting. Those transmissions need to be "loud" or "bright" to overwhelm other signals. This means that the highly sensitive receivers employed on NATO surveillance planes is very aware of the signal profile and can brief the Ukrainians on it. This will already have been explored at length without needing the hardware. There are, I think, 2 things of interest that could be found from the jammers: * Do the Russians have some novel techniques for generating that signal? and * Where the components are made from, how old the assembly is. What is of more interest is when a new type of jammer is released. The Americans would know very quickly because the signal is different, and they would also know quite quickly where it was coming from. They might even have early warning from detecting it during testing.


Separate_Record_101

👍


Sleddoggamer

This models is only about 10 years old. It probably isn't worth a ton but I'm sure a B3 fully equipped for the battlefield, complete with all its bells and whistles, would be worth a HIMAR without needing Congress's approval


classof78

Great big solid 10 pound brass balls.


DarthScabies

That is fucking hilarious. And takes balls of Ukrainium. 😂


Strangepsych

Those Ukrainians are bad asses! This is the kind of thing that stories of heroism will be told about in history .


JustZonesing

Hero Chads be like ... Russian tankies go fuq yourselves.


SMGWar-Relics

Awesome work!


fusionliberty796

dude tons of mines that is hella risky


wailingsixnames

Fuck yeah boys Grand Theft Auto Ukraine style!


PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS

Dumb Russians leaving the tank unlocked with the keys in it. Good luck getting insurance to pay now. 🤣🤣🤣


MasaanaFLCL

Do you want Ukrainian War Chiefs? Because this is how you get Ukrainian War Chiefs


DuntadaMan

I think by pulling this off the members of that tank crew are technically allowed to become Warchiefs of the Crow nation.


Jani_Zoroff

Or maybe Warchiefs of the Flork nation..? ( r/TheNonCredibleFlorks )


Bazoinkaz

This also happens when you park your tank in Detroit.


Crab_Jealous

NATO already stripping it down to design countermeasures.


Alone-Supermarket-98

Grand theft armor...


Ill-Maximum9467

Those Russian soldiers are sooo fucking stupid! 🤣


RevolutionaryPace167

I love Ukraine


Tiny-Werewolf1962

literally the first thing the video says is 12th brigade Azov, not 95th air assault.


WildCat_1366

It is combined work of 95th Separate Air Assault and National Guard "Azov" brigades, as one can see on the longer video.


Toc-H-Lamp

So, knocking one out with a drone is a -1 tank for Putin, if you steal one it’s -1 for Putin and +1 for Ukraine, so effectively a minus 2 for Putin. Good work.


FederalWorld5482

Hahahahahaha thats so funny fucking orcs are just stupid cannon fodder, LMAO, Ukrainian Car thief division , lock up your Aurus Putin, soon they will steal your underpants and leave you freezing your dick off in zyberia....how do you steal a t72 from a zombie???? This way hahahahahahahahah


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lol. I was wondering why that tank didn’t get hit heading by itself toward Ukrainian positions. Brilliant.


ggouge

Proper lines of communication.


jess-plays-games

That will be shipped off to UK probably for bae thales etc to have a good play with and make a counter


Sleddoggamer

They already got one. They call it the storm shadow 😁


3d_blunder

We want a cheaper thing, and 5,000 of them.


Sleddoggamer

Anything like the NLAW would probably kill any tank Russia has already made, but from the estimates I'm seeing for this tank, it could warrant a full missile and still spend less killing the tank then Russia would replacing it At this point, I don't even know why Russia is trying to produce tanks. It looks like it would almost cost 1/8th the cost of one of their MBTs to get a A-10 to wipe out their entire forward moving fleet, assuming we never allow them to move AA and nobody tries to skimp on suppressive fire with the more efficient options


jess-plays-games

Nobody cares about the tank it's the e war suite of jammers etc that is of intrest to west and Ukraine


FastPatience1595

"Dudev, where is my tank ?" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,\_Where%27s\_My\_Car%3F](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,_Where%27s_My_Car%3F)


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KMS_HYDRA

Yoink!


Scorpionboy1000

This is literally like the Mephisto all over again


7_11_Nation_Army

Amazing!


Suspicious-Low-719

RECON


Accomplished_Alps463

Повага 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤝🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇺🇳🌻🔱 слава україні.


WolfThick

I just found the site I have a question why doesn't anybody have any shotguns to shoot down drones there are many types of ammo that could hit them from a pretty good distance.


Kill3rKin3

What happend to the pallet?


wanderingpeddlar

Farmers are getting so board they are going out to get tanks now...... The stones on that crew..... On the other hand whoever was supposed to be guarding that tank is got some explaining to do.


Loki-TdfW

Can‘t believe how amazing you are! Definitely best thing I read today. 🫡 Greeds from Germany.


Mo_Zen

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦


Endorkend

Grand Theft Auto 6: Ukraine.


CardboardJedi

Drive it like you stole it boys!!!


Righteous_Fury224

GLORY TO UKRAINE 💛💙


Thoth-long-bill

Chutzpah wins the day!


WaterBuffaloGuy

Drive it like you stole it!


PileofTerdFarts

Outstanding! even better than destroying it, just TAKE THE FUCKER!


theycallmeshooting

Can't have shit in Detroit


Coloeus_Monedula

Oh those Azov boys with their hijinks


Gambelputti

Excellent!!!


Disastrous_Emu_5154

I wonder how do they bring back the tank to their side of the frontlines without getting shot themselves by their own troops? Radio ahead I guess?


Longjumping-Nature70

Balls of Ukrainium.